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    Graphics display issue/s.

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    by boxfiddler ·

    Does it matter which slot of two my PCIExpress video card is installed to? It’s a 16X card installed to a 16X slot. There are two 16X slots. I’ve installed to the one furthest from the CPU, if that’s relevant.

    I’m having some weird display issues.
    ‘Fluid’ scrolling. Very disconcerting.
    ‘Blinking’ display. Also very disconcerting.

    Card is ASUS AX 300SE\T, installed to an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. OS is WinXP Pro, SP2. Monitor is Samsung 913v.

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    • #2865999

      Clarifications

      by boxfiddler ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      Clarifications

    • #2865997

      If it offends thee

      by santeewelding ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      Pluck it out and put it in the other slot. See what happens.

      • #2865979

        Last ditch…

        by boxfiddler ·

        In reply to If it offends thee

        I’m trying to avoid any more pita with this build. I may not succeed, but I’m trying. 😉

    • #2865988

      I don’t think it matters

      by jcitron ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      which slot you put the card in as long as it’s the same kind of slot.

      The problems to me sound like interference of some kind caused by a loose connection or a shielding problem.

      Try tightening up your monitor cable on the back of the monitor and on the PC its self. Also try moving your video signal cable away from any power cables it maybe near. Sometimes the shielding isn’t that great on the cable.

      • #2865984

        try

        by jeremyrem ·

        In reply to I don’t think it matters

        you can also try adjusting the resolution, or refresh rate, what its currently set at may not be supported by your monitor.

      • #2865980

        Thanks.

        by boxfiddler ·

        In reply to I don’t think it matters

        I’ll double-check cabling. I wonder, as the front of this box is open for the moment, perhaps I’m garnering interference there? Also, there’s no panel around the I/O ports in the back. Could that matter?

    • #2865983

      For giggles,

      by seanferd ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      check the refresh rate.

      It does sound a bit like an interference issue, but trying a different valid refresh rate is easy.

      Are the drivers you expect to be in use for the card and the monitor the drivers which are actually in use? (Yeah, sometimes a specific, vendor-provided monitor driver is necessary or better.)

      • #2865981

        Yes to both.

        by boxfiddler ·

        In reply to For giggles,

        And I do have refresh rates this monitor can’t handle hidden in that option. It was running at 70, which supposedly this monitor can do. I’ve changed it to 60, the only other option.

        • #2865969

          Waugh!

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to Yes to both.

          I hate low refresh rates.

          Even though this does not have the same sort of meaning as it does for CRTs, a higher refresh rate can really make a difference, particularly when the monitor is not set at the default resolution. Unless the monitor cannot handle it, in which case it looks worse. Default is frequently 60Hz.

          Of course, refresh rate, resolution, and color depth are interrelated, so going for a higher refresh means losing color depth and/or resolution.

          Q: Are you using filtered power? It may help. Anything electrical near the box or the monitor which isn’t the box or the monitor?

        • #2865968

          I still think

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to Waugh!

          She needs to whack it with a mallet.

        • #2865966

          Ah ha ha…oh.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to I still think

          I thought you had said, “mullet”.

          Capital idea, though. 😉

        • #2865965

          You know

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to Ah ha ha…oh.

          Hitting it with a dead fish, large or small, just might do it.

        • #2865959

          Why not both?

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to You know

          Have fun with it. Get a friend. Choose your weapon, and go!

        • #2865958

          I’ll

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to You know

          have the mallet over the mullet any day. 😀

        • #2865967

          I hate

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to Waugh!

          troubleshooting hardware. I’m not very good at it, and I sometimes just don’t ‘get it’. Easy enough to match up bus speeds and slots and PSes the way manufacturers make all that pretty clear. But the rest of it? :0

        • #2865960

          Sometimes, it gets weird.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to I hate

          I remember needing to reassign IRQs and DMA channels, but not being allowed. Thanks, Windows 95. I could reassign, to my heart’s content, everything I could want – excepting the bit I needed to reassign.

          My favorite was the occasion of up my first wireless gateway. (Spoiler alert: They ship the damned things with wireless already on.) I was not planning on making use of the wireless feature at all.

          So, the sucker is hooked up, but Windows would have me believe that A Network Cable Is Unplugged, and I’m not having any of that. I can’t reach the router config, so I troubleshoot TCP/IP, check cables, reset router, whatever. When a connection was present, it would become Unplugged before I could reach the router. Mind you, I’m not thinking about Wireless at all… but initial setup technically requires an Ethernet connection, so I’m further inclined to disregard any thoughts of a Wireless nature.

          Eureka! A flash of insight, after disregarding the problem for some time. Move the evil cordless phone.

          The router was, apparently, confused by the phone base. It was latching onto the signal and dropping the Ethernet connection (which still doesn’t make sense to me). Once in the router’s web interface, I found that Wireless was, in fact, on. Stupid gateway.

          Now, what about all those people who never bother to secure their Wi-Fi because it never crossed their minds as they don’t use it?

        • #2865593

          I keep

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to Sometimes, it gets weird.

          wireless disabled. Except in winter when I use it from the room with the fire. I don’t trust wireless… Seems to me it’s too easy to get into.

    • #2865961

      Holy cow.

      by boxfiddler ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      Got rid of the scrolling problem with a couple of settings changes. One to the mouse itself, and the other to the ‘smooth scrolling’ option in FF. *slaps forehead*

      That leaves the blinking screen issue. 😐

      • #2865957

        Woo hoo! Two down, one to go.

        by seanferd ·

        In reply to Holy cow.

        See, you were thinking even more better than we on that. Slap us each in the forehead, twice as hard.

        I loathe horrible default settings.

        Blinking: Describe. I’m thinking random or regular blackouts at long intervals or once every few seconds. Tell me I’m thinking the wrong way about this now, too, will you? :^0

        • #2865592

          When a new tab is opened

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to Woo hoo! Two down, one to go.

          the screen of the tab I’m on ‘blinks’. When I drop a card on another card in Spider Solitaire, the screen ‘blinks’. When I move from folder to folder in Outlook, the screen ‘blinks’.

          In each case, just once.

          I haven’t had ‘er up and running very long, so these are the only regular instances of screen blinking I’ve noticed, and kept an eye on. (haha – more punny points)

          I can’t think of a better word than ‘blinks’, either. It’s almost, but not quite, a flash.

          edit
          Default settings. Been so long since I had a ‘new’ one that I’ve forgotten about some of those defaults. :p

        • #2865586

          So, during a major re-draw, (edit)

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to When a new tab is opened

          it is slow. O r that is how I am interpreting this. Try going back to 70 now?

          Also, look at the graphics driver display settings – is hardware acceleration being used or not?

          edit: Just had a look at the manual (fairly nice manual, I might add), just to make sure that it doesn’t matter which slot into which you install a single graphics card. Nope. Black or blue, your choice.

          I also noticed that you card comes with a utilities – try running those. Maybe try some other driver settings as there seem to be a lot of features to this card. Try a DirectX diagnostic, even. I know I have seen, used, and probably have, somewhere, a variety of odd video diagnostics. I’ll see if I can name any.

        • #2865579

          It takes us all

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to So, during a major re-draw, (edit)

          To swarm, and to envelope with love, any one of us who is willing to admit, without defense, that she does not have it [i]all[/i] under complete tow.

          Not that I have it, either.

        • #2865387

          Yes.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to It takes us all

          And being held in high regard doth bring forth the Swarm.

        • #2865556

          I didn’t get

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to So, during a major re-draw, (edit)

          a manual with the card. 🙁 Just a quick install flyer. I’ll hunt up the manual shortly.

          Thanks on the video diagnostic utilities when you think of them. 😉

        • #2865388

          There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to I didn’t get

          Just type dxdiag in the run box.

          You may also wish to check if the monitor needs a color profile installed, and whether there is one installed & in use. Mismatch = bad color.

          Card manual – Unfortunately, that section of the Asus site is still undergoing maintenance. http://www.asus.com/999/html/events/vga/eax300se-t/overview.htm

          Interesting, maybe, regarding drivers: http://driver-helper.org/asus/asus-5/asus-extreme-ax300set-driver-download

          Mobo manual, which I found to be slick:
          http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/A8N32-SLI%20Deluxe/E2280_A8N32-SLI_Dlx.pdf

          I cannot seem to locate any of my old monitor/graphics tests (mostly “DOS”-like) – time to search the archives.

          here is one that might suit your needs, 30 day free eval: http://www.passmark.com/products/monitortest.htm

          Visual web test:
          http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
          http://www.colormatters.com/comput_colorblind.html

        • #2865260

          Thank you

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          kind sir. 🙂

        • #2865259

          Welcome back

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          From your gastronomical adventure.

        • #2865255

          Boxy, you’re welcome. Santee – oh, I see.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          Nope, Thanksgiving Sunday, easier for the folks. Will report back. I worked, instead, and also played around on teh Intarwebs.

          I have found my stack of CDs and HDDs from other machines. Will have a look for one of the graphics and display tests. They will hurt your eyes, and you may feel the patterns on the inside of the back of your skull.

        • #2865254

          If Sunday

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          Then I get to wish you envelopment by all around and important to you. The food, too.

          Pig out on both.

        • #2867927

          Stuffed.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          Oink oink. Full family complement, much food. Good times.

        • #2867925

          Glad to hear it, seanferd.

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          Love a family get-together! 😀

        • #2867915

          Thank you.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          It is sort of nice – much of my family happens to live close, still, and others have moved here, like my 90-odd year old grandmother. (The women in her family do that. I had great grandmother and great grand aunts until I was a teen.)

          It is rather odd how close to me my brothers’ families and my grandmother live. If my dad didn’t have MS, my folks would still be extremely nearby as well. But they are still not very far at all. Pretty cool, really.

        • #2867913

          This is good

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          I am glad to hear, too.

        • #2867910

          Thank you, too.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.

          Good to see you both.

          Did I mention the kids? Oh my, the kids. A riot.

    • #2865588

      Sure glad

      by santeewelding ·

      In reply to Graphics display issue/s.

      These are all your problems, and not mine. I got me handfuls of my own — everytime I turn around, it seems, nowadays.

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